At least three gunmen stormed a police station in northern India near the border with Pakistan on Monday, killing six people—including two policemen—and injuring seven others, in a standoff that continued hours later, a senior Indian counterterrorism official said. Read More »

Nestlé SA will use advertising and social media, as well as the courts, to try to repair the damage done to its reputation by a recent food scare in India, said the newly-appointed head of the company’s Indian arm. Read More »

Disputes over dowry payments are among the leading reasons cited in female suicides in India, while bankruptcy or severe debt are blamed in a large proportion of incidents where men kill themselves. Read More »

Rahul Rathod has visited hundreds of homes as a deliveryman for Domino’s Pizza Inc., from posh villas in New Delhi’s diplomatic enclave to dusty apartments in the far reaches of the Indian capital. On a recent afternoon, though, he received a rather unusual order: from a hungry passenger on a train. Read More »

Indian inspectors in the western state of Maharashtra are checking Haldiram’s popular snacks and salty mixes for contamination after The Wall Street Journal reported some of the food company’s products were found unfit for consumption and rejected for sale in the U.S. Read More »

A steady flow of delivery trucks rolled into Nestlé SA’s distribution center in northern India this week, disgorging thousands of instant-noodle packets that had been pulled from store shelves after Indian authorities found high lead levels in some samples. Read More »

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